COLOGNE FOUNDED AGAIN

Evening Star, Issue 24328, 17 October 1942, Page 5

COLOGNE FOUNDED AGAIN

STRONG BOMBER FORGE OVER LARGE FIRES LEFT BURNING LONDON, Oct. 16. A strong force of bombers was over the Rhineland last night, when Cologne, the second largest city in Germany, was the principal target. Large fires were left burning. Eighteen of tho bombers are missing. It was the one hundred and tenth raid on Cologne, which before the first 1,000-bomber raid on May 30 had a population of 768,000. THE DIRTY BOCHE SCHOOL TODDLERS MACHINEGUNNED ((Rec. 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 16. Four Focke-Wulfs, attacking a southwestern village this morning, machinegunned children in the school playground and injured some. They also dropped bombs. Two were shot down. A villager said the Focke-Wulfs came very low, and apparently deliberately machine-gunned the toddlers in the school ground. The majority were infants. Four went sent to hospital. The village was very little damaged. Hit-and-run raiders early this morning machine-gunned and bombed a south-east coast town. Some damage was done, but no casualties are reported. CANADIAN WOOD ALCOHOL (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) OTTAWA, October 15. Wood liquor is at present going out through waste pipes from paper mills, and may be converted into alcohol by injecting yeast and certain salts, speeding fermentation, said the munitions and supply spokesman to Press representatives. He added that the Canadian distilleries had been ordered to halt production of beverage spirits and convert the entire output purposes, FRENCH REFUGEE CHILDREN (Rec. 10.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 15. The French refugee children being brought to the United States will not he of any particular race or nationality, simply those whose parents from unoccupied France have been forced into virtual slavery in Germany, leaving tho children practically orphaned in France. Mr Sumner Welles told the Press.' Asked if it was correct that 5,000 were being brought, Mr Welles declined to confirm or deny it. He said the children were practically destitute, providing a problem appealing to the deepest humanitarian instincts. JAPAN MUST BE DEFEATED PACIFIC WAR NOT A SIDESHOW (Rec. 11.5 a.m.) CANBERRA, Oct. 17. “ It would be utter madness to regard tlie Pacific war as a sideshow. To defeat Germany unless we also defeated Japan would leave us in an impossible position.” This was stated by Mr Keith Officer, former Charge d’Affaires in the Australian Legation in Tokio, who returned to Canberra after exchange with Japanese diplomats.

Mr Officer said an encouraging impression gained was that the native population of Japanese-occupied countries was not greatly impressed by Japanese propaganda that they were coming as deliverers. He thought, however, it was essential that the United Nations should make clear their postwar intentions to tho peoples of Southeast Asia, otherwise •Japanese propaganda in these countries might be successful in certain quarters. • The Japanese treated the staff of the Australian Legation strictly and correctly, ffjhe treatment of non-officials varied.